New Perspectives Gallery Tour: Scaling the Sublime

New perspectives is a walkabout tour of the exhibition led by a relay team of postgraduates at the University of Nottingham. Each will bring their research expertise to bear on one of the works in the exhibition and speak for eight minutes before handing the baton to the next.

This exhibition explores affinities with Romanticism in contemporary art practice, and the continuing fascination of the Landscape Sublime. Drawn to subjects such as mountains, glaciers, the icecaps, forests, the ocean, the moon and the remotest stars, the artists included have found new ways of reflecting on our relationship with the unimaginable forces of nature, even in our age of technological advance and the unprecedented expansion of knowledge.

Working across a variety of media and often drawing on expertise from other disciplines through collaboration, these artists embrace the newest processes and techniques as well as traditional methods of image making. The resulting works move through registers of wonder, melancholy, futility and absurdity.